Pigeon v. Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Four actions op tort against a street railway corporation by the owner and operator of a motor butcher cart, and by each of three women, who were travelling with him as his guests in the motor cart, for personal injuries sustained by the respective plaintiffs and damage to the motor cart of the plaintiff in the first case, caused by a collision with an electric street railway car alleged to have been operated negligently by servants of the defendant.
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Four actions op tort against a street railway corporation by the owner and operator of a motor butcher cart, and by each of three women, who were travelling with him as his guests in the motor cart, for personal injuries sustained by the respective plaintiffs and damage to the motor cart of the plaintiff in the first case, caused by a collision with an electric street railway car alleged to have been operated negligently by servants of the defendant. Writ in the first case dated November 28, 1916, and writs in the other three cases dated November 29, 1916. In each of the four cases the answer…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
These are actions of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries suffered by the several plaintiffs in a collision between a motorvehicle inwhich they were travelling and a trolley *394car of the defendant. The plaintiff Pigeon was the driver of a motor vehicle used as a butcher cart, and the other plaintiffs were with him as his guests. Pigeon drove .into the dooryard of a farmhouse in a thinly settled district in the town of Dracut, which was approached by a curving drive, so that when the automobile came to a stop, it was turned in the beaten path, facing toward the highway, the forward…
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- Slattery v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
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